"Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas."

-- Youssou N'Dour

#Ideas Quotes #Connections Quotes #Sake Quotes

“Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.”
“Why retire from something if you're loving it so much and enjoying it so much, and you're blessed with another group of people to work with like the gang on 'Hot in Cleveland?' Why would I think of retiring? What would I do with myself?”
“Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.”
“Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.”
“Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.”

Source : "Tom Shales' ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Review Goes Outrageously Negative" by Ross Luippold, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2013.
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

Source : Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.
“You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.”
“Iâ€™ll probably just stand in a corner, trying not to be noticed, until the decoration committee accidentally packs me into a box at the end of the night. There I will lie, crammed in between rolls of crepe paper, until the New Yearâ€™s dance two months from now. Jeffrey thought about this for a moment and said, Wonâ€™t they notice the box is too heavy when they go to put it away?”

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